Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Baker families who came mainly from the British Isles and Germany. Some allied families came from China, Russia, Scotland, and Wales. Some Bakers immigrated to Ontario (Canada), Nevis and Barbados (West Indies), Maryland and Virginia as early as 1654. In the 1700s, some settled in Connecticut, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Hampshire, New York, North...

William Shepherd was born about 1755 in Ireland and immigrated about 1773 to Harrod's Town, now Harrodsburg, Mercer Co., Kentucky. He fought in the Revolutionary war and married Isabella McNeal about 1779. He died in 1805.

Moses Trader Shepherd was born 9 January 1820 in Franklin County, Ohio. His parents were Peter Burr Shepherd and Mary Barker. He married Eliza Jane Adamson (1822-1897), daughter of Isaac Adamson and Nancy Garner, 22 March 1840 in Delaware, Indiana. They had eleven children. He married Hannah Garlic Hatch in 1856. They had two sons. He married Mary Christine Olesen in 1864. They had one daughter. He died in 1866 in Spanish Fork, Utah.

Benjamin Franklin Barney, son of Charles Barney and Deborah Riffle, was born in 1832 in Sprngfieldm, Illinois. He married Priscilla Ann Shepherd (1840-1916), daughter of Moses Shepherd and Eliza Adamson, in 1855 in Salr Lake City, Utah. They had fifteen children. He died in 1904 in Elsinore, Utah. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in England, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Utah.

Fredrick Shepherd was born 14 January 1885 in Lake Shore, Utah. His parents were Isaac Garner Shepherd (1861-1010) and Josephine Nielsen (1864-1914). He married Sarah Melissa Gull (1890-1960), daughter of George Gull (1844-1917) and Mary Jane Jones (1861-1921), 13 November 1907 in Provo, Utah. They had ten children. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in England, Wales, Denmark and Utah.